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I love pop culture Asian design aesthetics. They are so much more clean and bouncy feeling than western software. It using websites and apps more fun.

by rhema 10y ago

newacct23 10y ago
>They are so much more clean and bouncy feeling than western software. It using websites and apps more fun. Are we using the same ad ridden websites?
- PeCaN 10y ago
  I think the parent is referring to the tendency of Asian design to be more ‘fun/cute’ than ‘modern/flat’. There's less infatuation with low contrast flat designs in Asian websites and apps. Ads are somewhat invasive in both.
sushid 10y ago
I certainly agree that Korean/Chinese iPhone apps feel that way. Websites, however, are stuck using UI preferences of the 90s. Large, popular Korean sites look a lot like Yahoo during its heyday.
- PeCaN 10y ago
  I kinda like that, actually. It's more usable to me. I'm not a huge fan of current “modern” Western design trends. Asian websites do have a tendency to be a mish-mash of incompatible UI patterns though (IME, but my experience is limited to Weibo and a few misc sites). There's way more consistency in the west. Yahoo in its heyday wasn't beautiful but it was pretty usable.
- stockkid 10y ago
  > Large, popular Korean sites look a lot like Yahoo during its heyday. I agree. Also a large number of the websites including government ones requires that you install Active X and have Windows machine with IE.
- pcurve 10y ago
  Like others, I prefer the content-centric look of East Asian sites. Many highly trafficked Japanese (and Korean) web sites are model for brevity and efficiency. Compare: http://www.sankei.com/ http://www.sankei.com/ vs http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/ vs http://www.naver.com/ http://www.naver.com/ Sankei site has so much more content, yet its HTML file is only 38kb. Naver site is 97kb. Yahoo's html file is 614kb. Do View-Source on these sites, and it doesn't take long to figure out what a joke Yahoo site is. And the real joke is Japanese and Korean web developers make 1/2 or 1/3rd of what Yahoo guys make.
  - jonknee 10y ago
    > And the real joke is Japanese and Korean web developers make 1/2 or 1/3rd of what Yahoo guys make. What does that have to do at all with the number of kilobytes for the homepage?
    - dba7dba 10y ago
      Do more with less = efficiency And usually efficiency is rewarded?
    - pcurve 10y ago
      it's not just about the kilobyte. Do view source. You can tell a lot about an organization.

I love pop culture Asian design aesthetics. They are so much more clean and bouncy feeling than western software. It using websites and apps more fun.

by rhema 10y ago

I love pop culture Asian design aesthetics. They are so much more clean and bouncy feeling than western software. It using websites and apps more fun.

newacct23 10y ago

>They are so much more clean and bouncy feeling than western software. It using websites and apps more fun. Are we using the same ad ridden websites?

PeCaN 10y ago
I think the parent is referring to the tendency of Asian design to be more ‘fun/cute’ than ‘modern/flat’. There's less infatuation with low contrast flat designs in Asian websites and apps. Ads are somewhat invasive in both.

sushid 10y ago

I certainly agree that Korean/Chinese iPhone apps feel that way. Websites, however, are stuck using UI preferences of the 90s. Large, popular Korean sites look a lot like Yahoo during its heyday.

PeCaN 10y ago
I kinda like that, actually. It's more usable to me. I'm not a huge fan of current “modern” Western design trends. Asian websites do have a tendency to be a mish-mash of incompatible UI patterns though (IME, but my experience is limited to Weibo and a few misc sites). There's way more consistency in the west. Yahoo in its heyday wasn't beautiful but it was pretty usable.
stockkid 10y ago
> Large, popular Korean sites look a lot like Yahoo during its heyday. I agree. Also a large number of the websites including government ones requires that you install Active X and have Windows machine with IE.
pcurve 10y ago
Like others, I prefer the content-centric look of East Asian sites. Many highly trafficked Japanese (and Korean) web sites are model for brevity and efficiency. Compare: http://www.sankei.com/ http://www.sankei.com/ vs http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/ vs http://www.naver.com/ http://www.naver.com/ Sankei site has so much more content, yet its HTML file is only 38kb. Naver site is 97kb. Yahoo's html file is 614kb. Do View-Source on these sites, and it doesn't take long to figure out what a joke Yahoo site is. And the real joke is Japanese and Korean web developers make 1/2 or 1/3rd of what Yahoo guys make.
- jonknee 10y ago
  > And the real joke is Japanese and Korean web developers make 1/2 or 1/3rd of what Yahoo guys make. What does that have to do at all with the number of kilobytes for the homepage?
  - dba7dba 10y ago
    Do more with less = efficiency And usually efficiency is rewarded?
  - pcurve 10y ago
    it's not just about the kilobyte. Do view source. You can tell a lot about an organization.